Elinor Ostrom is the Arthur F. Bentley Professor of Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. She is also the
Founding Director of the Center for the Study of Institutional Diversity at Arizona State University. Ostrom is a member of
the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. She is
the recipient of many distinguished awards and has authored (and/or co-authored) numerous books including Trust and Reciprocity:
Interdisciplinary Lessons from Experimental Research (2003); The Commons in the New Millennium: Challenges and Adaptations
(2003); The Samaritan’s Dilemma: The Political Economy of Development Aid (2005); Understanding Institutional Diversity (2005);
and Understanding Knowledge as a Commons: From Theory to Practice (2007).